Posted on 07/27/2012 7:52:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Archaeologists in Bapska, eastern Croatia have stumbled across 6,500 year old deer antlers. The hunting trophy was found hanging on the wall of prehistoric house along with valuable items of jewellery, writes website dalje.com.
"We have the oldest deer hunting trophy in Croatia," said Marcel Buric, the head researcher at the Department of Prehistoric Archaeology of the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb.
According to Buric, local hunters from Bapska have estimated that the deer, where the antlers trophy has come from, would have weighed between 220 and 250 kilograms and would have been extremely strong due to its 12 antlers.
"It was in prehistoric times and would have needed real skill to catch such an animal, and with only stones as weapons. It is a known fact that deers are fast animals," concluded Buric.
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hunters back in the day regularly used an atl-atl to toss spears at wild deer ~ they were very successful at it.
“It is a known fact that deers are fast animals,” concluded Buric.”
Maybe, just maybe, he found it dead.
I’ve not yet been successful throwing rocks at deer.
Nahhh they used bolas
I got to use an atlatl to throw a spear. It was pretty fun.
most likely a road kill....
why did they bury the antlers in the dirt if they were found hangin’ on the wall of a prehistoric house? wt*?
Roman chariot, perhaps? The early Croats didn’t have much for horsepower.
I had a friend with a Yugo once; it might have been able to run over a crippled chicken on a good day.
In Croatia, running over crippled chickens is the national sport.
Roman chariot, perhaps? The early Croats didn’t have much for horsepower.
I had a friend with a Yugo once; it might have been able to run over a crippled chicken on a good day.
“It is a known fact that deers are fast animals” - and so are mooses.
A guy has to do something to pass the time!
We have grasshopper face-chewing contests when we’re bored here.
The uncrippled chickens get all the slow grasshoppers before their prime, so it is a skewed grasshopper special olympics, at best.
To Hell with the antlers; I want to know more about the jewelry!
Archaeology union rules.
Real men used sharpened stone points on the end of short spears. The bola thing comes along with the bronze age!
LMAO. I said the same darn thing.
Neanderthal women invented the bola by throwing their stone necklaces at their husbands,- Every schoolkid knows that.
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